While goat's milk soap is the most popular type of milk soap that is commonly made at home, coconut milk is worth looking into as well. It's the easiest type of milk soap to make, and if you've experienced what a coconut oil soap feels like, then the milk in a coconut actually has even more moisturizers than the oil. These cannot be found in any other kind of soaps.
So, as this is a milk soap you're going to be making, then I hope you have some experience making regular soaps behind you. It's not too hard to make this kind of soap, but it's not for the beginner either. Try starting with coconut oil soap first.
First, let's get one thing out of the way - coconut milk is not the liquid that is found inside of a coconut - that's the juice. Both the milk and oil from a coconut are produced from the flesh, in this case by steeping it in hot water.
While coconut oil soap is simply one which has coconut as an oil base, this milk soap is made differently. Here all or almost all of the water in the lye solution is actually replaced with milk. This presents extra problems which makes this a bit more complicated than normal soap.
Namely, when mixing the lye solution, you have to constantly watch the temperature in order to avoid curdling the coconut milk. If this does happen, your only option is to neutralize the lye with vinegar and throw it away.
Assuming you're familiar with making a lye solution, here's what you do differently. To begin with, freeze the coconut milk until it has the consistency of slush (not solid), and keep it in the pitcher you're going to use. Add the lye slowly and ensure that you never go above 100 degrees F. The lye may burn out the sugars in the milk and the solution might turn brown - this is fine, and the smell will go away and won't affect the final product.
That's the specifics of how to make coconut milk soap. The rest of the process works out just like normal soap making. Here's a recipe you might try:
18 fluid oz coconut milk
1T of sugar and 1T of salt added to coconut milk before adding lye
6.06 oz lye
28.5 oz olive oil
15 oz shortening
4.5 oz castor oil.
Learning how to make coconut milk soap is a step up in your soap making. To read about the instructional video that I love so much and learned my soap making skills from, click here: http://www.easy-soap-making.info.
-Bradley Edwards
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